Date   : Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:46:10 -0000
From   : "Kris Adcock" <krisa@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro repairs

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bbc-micro@...
> [mailto:owner-bbc-micro@...]On Behalf Of John Woodgate
> Sent: 20 February 2002 12:34
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC Micro repairs
>
>
> I read in !bbc-micro that Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
> wrote (in <7r6N+lFwpsc8EwMR@...>) about
> '[BBC-Micro] BBC Micro
> repairs', on Tue, 19 Feb 2002:
> >In article <KaX3AGB6doc8EwI0@...>, John Woodgate
> ><jmw@...> writes
> >
> >>There are no flames and smoke when I power up, but discs
> cannot be read.
> >>Some discs may be corrupted, but not all, I think.
> >
> >I don't think you said in your earlier posts what error
> message you get
> >when you try to read a disk.  This will help to isolate the problem.
>
> Indeed. I couldn't remember the message and I didn't want to set the
> computers up unless there was a prospect of help to solve the
> problem.
>
> Now I have set them up, and the message for any disc command
> is 'Sector
> not found at 00/02'. This applies to discs containing commercial
> software as well as those I filled myself.

Over the last year or so, quite a number of friends have given me old Beeb
equipment (for some reason, quite a lot of my friends are teachers, so I get
a lot of educational stuff). I must have half-a-dozen disk drives which will
corrupt ANY disk put into it. I'm guessing that as they've been knocked
about, heads have become misaligned, etc. Are there any guides knocking
about on how to re-align or fault-find disk drives?

Cheers,

Kris.